Importance of Lesson Planning in TCs professional development

The importance of lesson planning in a teacher candidate’s professional development.

       I believe that lesson planning is extremely important for all teachers, not only for a teacher candidate preparation but also for teachers working for years in the system.  I have learned that when a teacher dedicates the time to plan their lesson the results in the performance of the students are most likely to be outstanding.   Another factor that is really important is that by having a lesson plan in which the students are kept on task throughout the whole English class the teacher is diminishing any misbehavior among the students.  In other words the teacher is working upon excellence in classroom management.   I consider that a lesson plan serves as a guide for the teachers to meet their objectives.  Throughout my practice teaching experience, I have always created a lesson plan for each day and I have obtained good performance from my students.  I believe that lesson plans should be develop to reach all of the students needs.  This year in my practice teaching group I have both, students that represent a linguistic challenge and the students that are below the grade level expectations.   This means that I have had to develop lesson plans where all of my students can benefit from them.  I consider that if I would have not embraced the lesson planning technique I will surely not be able to treat individual differences in my English class.   Another important part of lesson planning is the reflection.  Once the teacher writes their reflection about the day, you are automatically thinking on how you can make a better plan to treat specific topics.  I believe that developing my own lesson plans I have gained the knowledge in order to perform with excellence in the teaching profession.  I have to admit it takes a lot of time to prepare a good lesson plan but at the end of the semester you feel the satisfaction of being an outstanding teacher.